[Mono-list] [ann] Mono Starter for OS X

[Andy Satori]

Only if X is already running and you have your default Terminal environment
setup to launch X apps from Terminal.

Andy



On 6/18/04 1:00 PM, "Elfred Pagan" <elfred@gmail.com> pounded the keyboard
to produce:

> Does it work with GTK# Applications?
> 
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:20:53 +0200, l0ne <l0ne@email.it> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everyone!
>> I was quite intrigued by the chance of having .NET applications also
>> run on my beloved iMac, but I'm quite terminalphobic -- so, after
>> having seen that .NET exes work on my Mac (yeah!), I've written a small
>> starter .app to run exes by double-clicking.
>> 
>> THINGS IT DOES:
>>   - It works with both mono and ilrun (portable.net).
>>   - Starts applications in Mac OS X's Terminal.app.
>>   - Registers .exes and .dlls with cute, shiny, handmade,
>> emblazoned-with-mono-logo custom icons, removing that ugly Virtual PC
>> icon from them (which is Windows's default icon for exes, just
>> stretched to 128x128. Not "redrawn to look good in 128x128". Just 32x32
>> icons stretched to that size. Ugh).
>>   - Detects "mono" and "ilrun" by watching into common directories
>> (/usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /opt/local/bin,
>> /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework and so on).
>>   - If a .NET environment is not detected, it offers the user a chance
>> to install Mono or Portable.NET from a PKG (if such a package is put
>> into the program's Resources folder) or, if none is available, shows
>> links to go-mono.org and dotgnu.org. Which means that the program
>> allows for dumb-proof drag'n'drop installation of Mono (by taking
>> "extra steps" on first launch as per Apple Human Interface Guidelines).
>>   - Can be configured to launch X11 along with the Terminal, allowing
>> programs that use Windows.Forms or other windowing toolkits to start
>> correctly.
>> 
>> THINGS IT DOESN'T DO:
>>   - The preferences aren't complete yet - they don't disable the "Use
>> Mono" or "Use DotGNU" option even when the corresponding piece of
>> software isn't available, very possibly leading to bad behavior
>> (NullPointerExceptions suddenly finding their way into the Console at
>> the very least).
>>   - It doesn't allow the user to turn off the Terminal -- that is, to
>> load the .exe without having the Terminal window show up. Mainly
>> because I'm lazy.
>>   - It doesn't make any coffee.
>>   - It has no way of intelligently understanding whether a program is
>> console-only or uses a windowing toolkit, so you must activate or
>> deactivate X11 manually for now.
>>   - It does not pass any command-line parameters to the .exe being
>> started. Again that's because I'm just lazy.
>> 
>> You can find the .app (with no .pkg inside its Resource folder) at
>> http://matrixtcg.altervista.org/monostarter.zip and source at
>> http://matrixtcg.altervista.org/monostarter.src.zip (pay attention: the
>> .xcode project refers to a portable.net.pkg that isn't there for size
>> reasons. Just remove it, the program will detect the absence of pkgs in
>> the Resources folder and work just fine). I haven't included a license
>> in the .zip but I will soon, and it will be GPL.
>> 
>>   - e. v. aka l0ne
>> 
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